Outdoors · Walden

Walden, VT parks, trails & bike paths

About 27% of Walden is conserved land, roughly 6,594 acres. There are about 11 miles of mapped trails, and the biggest networks are in Steam Brook Mill WMA (3.7 mi).

Conserved land, trails, parks and bike routes in Walden, measured from OpenStreetMap and USGS data.

At a glance

Walden outdoors

Conserved land
27%
6,594 of 24,788 acres
Trails
11 mi
0.3 mi per sq mi · 4 on conserved land
Parks & preserves
1
6,359 conserved acres per 1,000 residents
Bike routes
6.3 mi
0.0 mi lanes · 6.3 mi off-road paths

Conserved land is a share of the whole town area. Bike lanes are often missing from the map in smaller towns, so that number is likely low.

Map

Conserved land, trails & bike routes

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Tap a number or a place below to zoom in© OpenStreetMap contributors · USGS PAD-US
Places to walk

Parks & preserves with trails

Ranked by mapped trail miles. Directions go to the nearest marked trailhead or public parking.
1

Steam Brook Mill Wildlife Management Area

Nature preserve
6,125 acres3.7 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet Website
Who protects the land

6,594 conserved acres

Who manages it, from PAD-US. Approximate, because parcels can overlap.
Land trusts & nonprofits
592 ac
State conservation
230 ac
USDA easements (NRCS)
229 ac
State natural resources
54 ac
Not recorded
6,128 ac

Conserved doesn't always mean open to visitors. 465 acres are conservation easements, which are usually private land. Public access isn't recorded for 4 of 16 parcels. The places listed above are parks and preserves people visit.

Biking & sports

Bike routes, courts & fields

  • Painted or protected bike lanes0.0 mi
  • Off-road bike paths6.3 mi
  • Shoulders & shared lanes0.0 mi
Next door

Walden and its neighbors

Towns whose outdoors data has been built so far.
TownConservedTrailsParks & preserves
Walden26.6%10.5 mi1
Stannard36.3%1.2 mi2
Hardwick11.1%17.7 mi1
Cabot12.8%6.1 mi2
Trail talk

Conditions & tips from neighbors

No recent posts about Walden's trails yet. Muddy, icy, a bridge out, where to park: a quick post helps the next person.

Sources: trails, parks, preserves, courts and bike lanes © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), map data as of 2026-09-28. Conserved land: USGS Gap Analysis Project, Protected Areas Database of the United States (PAD-US). Measured against the Census town boundary.

How we measure"Trails" are OpenStreetMap paths, bridleways, public tracks and unpaved footways, plus footways inside a park or preserve or on a named trail route. Sidewalks are left out. Areas are counted on a 27.1-meter grid, so overlapping parcels count once. "Conserved" includes conservation easements, which protect land from development but are usually private property. Trailheads are the nearest marked trailhead, public parking lot or information board within about 150 meters of a preserve. Dog rules come from OpenStreetMap when someone has tagged them; otherwise we show what's typical for the land manager, or say the rules aren't recorded.

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